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...The publishing house was home to authors including Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald and still publishes about 2,000 titles a year, recently releasing Rage by Bob Woodward and the family memoirs of...
...reads more like an essay question than the title of a book but it is a good one, since most people will have forgotten the former Hollywood agent....
...It Can’t Happen Here was the title of Sinclair Lewis’s celebrated 1935 novel about fascism in America....
...His company’s creditors, which are led by Barclays Bank and UBS, hold the property’s title deed in escrow against default on the mortgage, which is due for full repayment in February 2019....
...Sarandos has pushed cinema chains to be more flexible with the way they release titles....
...As the FT reported last week, free-to-play games such as Supercell’s Clash of Clans have come to dominate the “top grossing” charts on the iPhone, while Rovio’s titles have fallen towards the bottom of the...
...The initial investment paid off: the DreamWorks studio and film library was eventually acquired by Paramount for $1.6bn, with Paramount going on to sell the film library for $900m....
...Its Manhattan flagship may still vie for the title of the world’s largest store, but Macy’s market capitalisation no longer befits a chain famed worldwide as a giant of American retail....
...Deutsche Bank recently closed its film unit after failing to complete a $450m financing for Paramount Pictures....
...The company has an international distribution agreement with Paramount’s Vantage subsidiary and Alliance, a Canadian distributor, but has reserved the right to pre-sell rights in certain territories....
...Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks animation gave HD-DVD a boost on Monday in the race to become the dominant home entertainment format, announcing they would release all their new titles in HD-DVD....
...Some investors questioned the value of the library because many of its titles are co-owned by other studios....
...As part of the agreement, Paramount would still retain rights to distribute the library titles....
..."These titles have such great public awareness that we are virtually guaranteed [strong] opening weekends," Mr Arad said. "Then we'll make sequels."...
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